Steeve Iuncker
Photographe suisse, membre de l’Agence VU’ depuis 2000, vit et travaille principalement à Genève
Formé à l’école de photographie de Vevey, Steeve Iuncker devient rapidement photographe de presse à Genève. En parallèle des reportages et portraits réalisés dans le cadre de l’actualité helvète, il mène des projets plus personnels, qui interrogent la violence intrinsèque à toute vie humaine et sociale, ainsi que la façon dont la photographie peut, en approchant les tabous, questionner les conventions normalisées de la représentation…
Born in 1969 in Switzerland, Steeve Iuncker lives and works in Geneva.
He studied at the Photography School in Vevey and has been a member of Agence VU’ since 2000. “Press photographer (he works part-time for a daily newspaper), Steeve Iunker tirelessly questions the role(s) of photography and of the image in the fields of information and documentary today in a radical and political way…[his work] aims to get close to the taboos relating to the body, to sex, to death and to the standard social conception of big issues that affect human thought. Either he stays with an Aids patient in the terminal phase, he represents the professional life of an old prostitute, he confronts himself with the crisis in Gaza, he stores images of celebrities adorned with diamonds at Cannes Festival, discovers the backstage area of a fashion show, follows the police while investigating on crimes, or reveals the astounding world of plastic surgery, Steeve Iunker doesn’t chase icons. He shows. In a realistic, free and salutary way…
